THE MANGUM FAMILY

Friday, February 11, 2011

New Addition

One day your daughter is asking you for an old sock and empty water bottle...and the next thing you know, she's bringing home a sister for herself!

Meet Jessie, the grass sock head cowgirl, that Hayley grew in Science Class. That is some Texas styled hair alright, yeehaw! Just in time for Rodeo Season :)

On January 29th, Trevor & I went to the first UIL competition of the year. Hayley tagged along to see what it was all about. Trevor competed in 3 different events, Social Studies, Number Sense & Listening, despite being out sick with a high fever the previous 2 days. He did awesome and medaled in his Listening Skills event...which proves he can hear me when I ask him to clean his room, right?!

Hayley & Trevor posing with his Listening Skills medal

I coach a group of 4th & 5th graders in the Oral Reading category & our guys did great, taking home 2nd, 3rd & 5th place in the finals. Our school ended up taking 3rd place for the whole tournament. Of course, the best part of the day is hanging out in between competitions and playing games with each other!

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Getting pumped up to compete in Number Sense

Trevor & his friend Jonathan playing chess

Hayley playing Uno with a group of 5th graders

Pure Awesomeness

A couple weeks ago Trevor's scout troop had their Pinewood Derby. Trevor made a sweet car, complete with a lego driver hanging off the back for dear life. He named his car Awesomeness, which ended up winning a few races, as well as the prize of best named car. It was a fun night of races and ice cream!

Sister Meier

Some of the great family we have here in Texas are Don's cousins, the Meiers. We love hanging out with them and of course, playing with their fun dogs :)

One of them (a cousin, not a dog!) is a sweet young lady named Brittney, who I've known since she was about 4 years old. It has been so great to see her & her siblings grow up into these amazing people.

Brittney recently received her mission call to Korea Daejeon Mission where she will serve as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the next 18 months. She entered the MTC this week and we are so excited for her.

A couple of weeks ago we got to go to Brittney's missionary farewell and an open house. It was fun to see Brittney one last time before she left and have fun with their family. Jake even brought his Book of Mormon Guess Who game for a Meier rematch from Christmas time. It was fun to watch the geniuses at work!

Chelsea & the Guess Who game genius Jared

The big daddy Meier, Kev *

Jake and Tracy playing Guess Who

Luke and his best buddy Ashley

Luke checking out Grammy's plate

Sister Brittney Meier! *

We love you Brittney!

Brittney & the Mangum gang

* pictures by Jake

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Good Sports

We like to play games of all types around here, and can occasionally be a little too competitive :)

So a couple of weeks ago we had a family home evening lesson about good sportmanship. We talked about what it means to be a good sport and went over four basic principles that we should always do - Follow the Rules, Always Do your Best, Be Gracious in Losing, and Be Humble in Winning. We went over some fun scenarios and quotes by famous sports people & talked about how being a good sport is important in everything we do, not just when we play games. We ended by playing a fun hockey game that our friends gave us earlier in the day.

Cougar Pride

A couple days before Christmas, in search of a last moment gift for Don, I had the kids all put on their favorite BYU clothes and we did a quick photo shoot while Don was out of the house. Luke stayed true to his colors and tried to run out of every group shot, so Michael finally threw him on top of his shoulders for a picture.

We also tried to get a fun individual shot of everyone. We love our Cougars and can't wait to go cheer on Jimmer and the rest of the gang when they come to Texas to play TCU next month!

Go Cougars!

Michael palming the ball

Jake...the quarterback sneek play!

Luke having fun on the slide

Trevor has dribbling and dancing skills

Luke's version of palming the ball

Jake is ready for business!

Hayley loves cheerleading!

Hayley showing her school pride

Trevor, Ready to Pounce

Michael showing his quaterback skills

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

New Years Fun

We went to Dallas to ring in the New Year with my family. My parents & all 3 of my brothers & their families were there, so it was a party! We missed having my sister & her family though...maybe next year, right Beth?!!

The cousins had a blast playing together. There were lots of games, including breaking in Grandpa & Grandma's new ping pong table.

Don & the gang in a rousing game of Clue

We were all together to watch Tennessee's bowl game & had a lot of fun cheering on our Vols and eating Scott's fiery chicken sandwiches.

Luke cheering on the Vols

Isaac & Luke eating some big orange crackers

Hayley doing a cheer

Ronny, Jake & Anna playing

New Year's Eve we had a huge slumber party at Bob's house and partied the year away, again eating lots of great food & playing fun games together.

New Years Eve, special seating

Kicking off the New Years Eve party

Isaac helping Grandpa play Apples to Apples

Luke checking out the decorations

Abby & Hayley doing a little spa action on New Year's Eve

Anna & Jake playing Sorry

Abby & Grandpa playing chess

Grandma, Abby & Hayley getting ready to toast

Scott & Jenny

Michael & Trevor

The New Year dawned awfully early. After a great breakfast, the girls packed up and headed off to an adventure at the American Girl Doll store in downtown Dallas. It was the unveiling of the new 2011 doll and the store had lots of fun free activities to do. This was Hayley's first trip to the much anticipated store and she had a blast with her cousins. The boys stayed behind and played basketball, so it was a great morning for everyone!